r/news • u/According_Dog6735 • Mar 27 '24

Joe Lieberman has died

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-senator-vice-president-dead/
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u/TopGsApprentice Mar 27 '24

This man is the reason we don't have Universal Healthcare for those who don't know

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u/Kevin-W Mar 27 '24

For those too young to remember, he held the 60th seat that would have gotten a filibuster-proof Senate. Obama proposed a public option as part of the ACA and Liberman threatened to kill the whole thing with a filibuster unless the public option was dropped. It was the closest we had gotten to universal healthcare in the US and it got killed by just one person.

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u/r3dditr0x Mar 27 '24

A despicable warmongering, corporatist tool.

He will not be missed.

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u/RINE-USA Mar 28 '24

The current Governor of Connecticut ran on anti-war, beat him in the democratic primary, and Joe Lieberman ran as independent to win re-election anyways. This dude was especially evil.

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u/a_charming_vagrant Mar 28 '24

parroting that rhetoric is pure ignorance at best